Fears and thoughts in South Africa

Dave Scott wrote:

It will be interesting to find out the action plan that comes from the Cyril meeting today.

Plus Putin latest statement is cause for concern.

No need for concern Dave. Joe's at the wheel.

......we can no longer have any faith in Ramasofa solving anything......big gestures and empty promises are the domain of super wealthy politicians that have gained financially and merely supervised .....while their cadre's have pillaged the country into the dark ages.....

I am so glad Cyril came back to solve the power crisis .

" it's a global problem and not just SA" was the outcome of the brain trust 😪

.....now an international problem....but it started more than 14 years ago.....when we thought we were flush....we had an ESKOM CEO flying from his mansion in the capital to ESKOM in a helicopter every week day.....we were told that the 2 new power stations were the answer to all future electrical woes....only to find out that they were merely another money laundering scheme for the connected....and they are far worse than the older power plants....and now we are being gouged by highly inflated diesel pricing also blaming international problems....yet diesel has always been a cheaper refining fraction and far less expensive to ship than petroleum yet we are paying a premium while it is being burnt by ESKOM and trucks carrying unbelievable amounts of premium coal....not to our beleaguered power stations but to Richards Bay as Europe pulls their moth balled coal power plants to supply energy to supplement Russian gas....our political elite are heavily invested in coal and the transport thereof and here is their next big payday....thanx Cyril you are a champion....you have provided well for your people....:dry:

......on a lighter note and can only happen in Africa.....we had a wild baboon on the loose in our suburb on Wednesday this week and if I had not seen it with my own eyes would never had believed it.....it came into our complex and about 3 hours later a chap from CLAW came in with a cage trap....he said it had been tracked for days moving through the Northern suburbs from Fourways... Lonehill...Kyalami and now Sunninghill .....I subsequently scanned social media to find further news of this baboons' exploits and read that it had holed up at ESKOM Megawatt Park....maybe he heard that they were hiring.....:lol:

Fourways residents report sighting of a male baboon roaming the streets and are urged to not scare him off
Residents are encouraged to report sighting of the baboon to a central location and to Owl Rescue Centre as they continue the search for the animal.

‘Mr Baboon’ has now made his way to Megawatt Park in Sunninghill. He had previously fallen asleep at Lonehill Koppies near the Lonehill Dam and made an early morning hike towards Sunninghill.


Owl Rescue Centre’s Brandon Murray said traps will be put up around Mr Baboon’s route with the vet on standby for a safe opportunity to dart him.
“We haven’t been able to dart as we did come a bit close to him. So we are going to wait until he falls asleep tonight and place traps around him when it’s dark and hopefully can catch him in the morning. If we don’t catch him by tomorrow (September 22) morning, he will head over the highway towards Sandton side,” he said.

Murray added that the calm animal has now found a way to get food from homes while on his walks throughout the Fourways area, but has emphasized that he is not harming anyone.


“He’s going from complex to complex and route to route, so anyone’s windows or doors that are open he goes inside. He is grabbing different foods and fruits from people’s counters. He has managed to get into one lady’s house and eat the bananas, eggs and oranges on the counter.

“He doesn’t attack people or pets, he is quite scared of people. He just wants food,” said Murray.

Owl Rescue Centre and Wild Serve NPO alongside other rescue organizations are working hand in hand to safely track and relocate ‘Mr Baboon’, and have been for the past few days.

[Initial story: September 20 15:40]

A baboon has been calmly roaming the streets and residential areas of Fourways since September 19, with it still to be caught and safely relocated.

Residents in the area reported the wandering baboon to the safety experts in Owl Rescue Centre and Wild Serve NPO to aid in the matter, alongside a number of other organisations.

According to the Owl Centre’s Facebook page, ‘Mr Baboon’ has since roamed from a shopping centre’s roof two days prior to being called out and was last seen in the Fairfields Estate on September 20. It is suspected to have come from the Hartebeespoort area.

“The thing with the public is that when they see an animal, they want to help. The best thing is not to do anything, and give us a call as soon as possible. It is best for people to go inside with their children and pets. This is so that we don’t distract the baboon as we want him to move through,” he said.
“Don’t scare him off and let him go on his way so that we can keep track of him. At the moment, we can see that he just keeps moving. He doesn’t look for children or dogs, so he’s not a threat. We’ve got a method we use every time something like this happens, and it works.”

He added that people need to keep reporting the baboon’s whereabouts to a central location in order to keep an idea of the next move he might take.
If you see Mr Baboon anywhere, contact the Owl Rescue Centre on 082 719 5463 with all information you can give.

Share your thoughts on the Fourways Review Facebook page.

If true this is like Bob [MUGABE] reincarnated..................

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Phala fella simply cannot sweep it under the carpet , is stashing foreign undeclared currency in your furniture not an offence.?
What about tax evasion?

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Ramaphosa poised to unleash a ‘totalitarian night’
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By Paul Ngobeni

There are ominous signs that President Cyril Ramaphosa is ready to unleash war on his political enemies and rivals, purely for his own political survival. Public institutions and criminal prosecutions will be weaponised to ensure that his political rivals are eliminated or seriously hobbled before the ANC’s December elective conference.


Ramaphosa’s multipronged strategy involves indirect unconstitutional changes to the ANC Constitution, under the guise of strengthening the rules for the nomination and vetting of candidates.

Under the rules, published on July 25, no one may contest ANC elections for leadership if: “4.2.1 They have been found guilty of or have been charged with unethical or immoral conduct, or any serious crime, or corruption.” A serious crime is defined by the executive committee as a crime that could result in a prison sentence of longer than six months. A charge is defined as being charged in a court of law.

This rule applies also to members who have been charged with any criminal offences in cases that are being heard or where a judgment or sentence is being appealed. In clear violation of the doublejeopardy principle, members who were convicted by a disciplinary committee for contravening the ANC Code of Conduct and who “had their membership suspended for any period in the last ten years” are barred from contesting, even where they dutifully complied with the terms of the sanctions imposed over a decade ago.

The draconian rule applies even when a member is awaiting the outcome of a disciplinary hearing or an appeal. The unconstitutional rules signal the imminent arrival of the totalitarian night or the wholesale indictment of ANC candidates, public officials and party leaders who pose a threat to Ramaphosa’s ambitions for re-election.

Under the Constitution, every South Africa citizen who is qualified to vote is eligible to be a member of the National Assembly, with the exception of those who have been convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than a year in prison without the option of a fine.

The ANC changed all that to render ANC members ineligible, even if they qualified to become members of Parliament. The ANC constitution states unequivocally that all disciplinary proceedings must be “just and fair”. A “member is presumed innocent until proven guilty… has a chance to defend herself or himself… A member has the right to appeal”. But these rights, including the right to appeal, are rendered nugatory for the sake of political expediency and electioneering.

The principle of double jeopardy is violated by excluding members almost 10 years after their cases were adjudicated upon and they received a suspension, as opposed to expulsion for the offence. The newly promulgated rules reflect the handiwork of factionalists who are hell-bent on abusing legal processes to sideline potential rival candidates opposed to Ramaphosa.

The second prong of Ramaphosa’s re-election strategy involves the president’s abuse of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), the Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to target officials or activists perceived to pose a political threat to his re-election.

A few weeks ago, National Director of Public Prosecutions advocate Shamila Batohi and Hawks boss Godfrey Lebeya met to discuss the final State Capture Inquiry report. They expressed their commitment to ensuring accountability for those implicated and said they were committed to enhancing collaboration and sharing resources and expertise to ensure the most effective prosecution-guided approach.

But it is undeniable that the selection of those targeted for prosecution will be dictated by political bias. On the same day the ANC election rules were announced, July 25, Ramaphosa also announced five proclamations authorising the SIU to investigate corruption and maladministration in at least 14 government entities and departments, including the Health Department and the South African Social Security Agency.

The investigations appear to have a focus on KwaZulu-Natal, where former KZN premier and Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has emerged as a presidential candidate who poses a credible threat to Ramaphosa’s re-election. It is no coincidence that the investigation and witch-hunt has its focus on mostly KZN in general and the health sector in particular.

The appetite or enthusiasm for Mkhize’s presidency will be suppressed through a series of intimidation tactics, including groundless investigations, threats, and arrests and prosecutions on spurious grounds. The SIU is a proverbial guided missile directed by the president. We all know that the SIU can initiate investigations only if it has presidential approval – it cannot exercise its investigative powers in the absence of a Presidential Proclamation.

This makes it likely that the SIU mandate can be a product of presidential fiat or whim, which will increasingly be directed towards his political rivals and away from his allies, such as Gwede Mantashe and Enoch Godongwana. The matter of Masuku versus Special Investigations Unit and Others (April 12, 2021) highlights potential abuses.

The SIU report was used to remove Dr Bandile Masuku from his MEC position and inflict a stigma upon him. It did not matter that Masuku was not guilty of a crime or delictual wrongdoing.

The Court said: “(67)… The SIU saw no crime having been committed by Dr Masuku. The SIU saw no basis for civil action against Dr Masuku. Indeed, it decided there was no action it could or should take.” Ramaphosa’s predilection for the SIU probes is easily explained – they can readily be weaponised, given the selective and instrumental nature of the investigations as determined by Ramaphosa.

Untested and unsubstantiated allegations can be hurled at subjects, motivated by political considerations and propaganda goals of the fake anti-corruption campaign.

Just like the Masuku case, SIU reports will increasingly be used for propaganda attacks on persons subjected to investigations, and selective prosecution/justice will become the order of the day. It is expected that the mass arrest of politicians not favoured by Ramaphosa will be effected soon.

On August 30, the Investigative Directorate spokesperson, Sindiswe Seboka, revealed that their next arrests “might actually shock everyone”. There are rumours that a relative of Pravin Gordhan is likely to be parachuted to a senior position in the NPA and is expected to lead a “hit squad” of NPA prosecutors tasked with, among others, defensive manoeuvres to protect Ramaphosa and his allies, including those implicated in the State Capture Report, from the consequences of their alleged criminal actions.

As another court admonished in Berger versus United States, a prosecutor’s overarching duty is “not that (she) shall win a case, but that justice shall be done”. Our prosecutors are thus much more than lawyers for a party to a dispute. They are the guardians of the constitutional and legal rights of everyone who crosses their paths and of our constitutional system of administering justice.

The law prohibits a prosecutor from pursuing an investigation or prosecution that is – or appears to be – politically motivated or, that violates the accused’s right to fairness in the administration of justice. Prosecutors who find themselves being used as Ramaphosa’s Trojan horses in his obsessive quest for re-election as president must tread carefully.

If prosecutors recklessly charge persons with sundry crimes for the purpose of side-lining them during the ANC elective conference, then such conduct would invite massive lawsuits for violations of constitutional rights, including freedom of association and malicious prosecution.

* Ngobeni is a Juris Doctor graduate of New York University and legal analyst.

Latest power concerns.

The only thing that you can set your watch with is if they say the power is going off at 10.00 it certainly does.

The latest problem is when they try to switch on again. It trips immediately as the power source can't handle this excessive on/off situation.

We have no idea when we will be back on again ?
Probably in time for the next scheduled blackout 😪😎

World War III Has Already Begun, but the Truth Is Being Withheld from the Public Until the Very Last Moment


By Mike Adams



World War III has already begun. You simply aren’t being told this because your government and dishonest media outlets are dedicated to keeping you in the dark. After all, they want to use the remaining time to stockpile food, ammunition, medical supplies and precious metals for themselves, and this can only be accomplished by withholding the truth about the situation for as long as possible.

The Prime Minister of Serbia may be an exception to this, as he is now publicly warning that the world is about to experience a “great world conflict” that will likely begin in the next two months.

“Aleksandar Vucic made the alarming comments during the first day of the UN General Assembly session in New York,” reports Paul Joseph Watson at Summit.news. The full quote from Vucic is:

I assume that we’re leaving the phase of the special military operation and approaching a major armed conflict, and now the question becomes where is the line, and whether after a certain time – maybe a month or two, even – we will enter a great world conflict not seen since the Second World War.

NATO is already at war with Russia, and Putin is gearing up for a continental battle
What’s happening is that psychopathic western nations have — the real aggressors in this war — have unleashed not just “suicide sanctions” against Russia, but are also running Ukraine’s military operations against Russia. This means NATO is already in the war, even if NATO won’t admit it yet. Worse yet, NATO leaders are openly demanding the complete destruction of Russia and the occupation / exploitation of Russia’s natural resources, which is of course the entire model of global exploitation and pillaging typically carried out by the west. (Disrupt, pillage, control. That’s the CIA model that has been unleashed against other nations for decades…)

Conditions are already long past the point of negotiation or de-escalation between Russia and the west. The psychopathic leaders of the west (Victoria Nuland comes to mind) are russo-phobic Russia haters who are determined to carry out genocide against the Russian people, even if it means destroying their own economies and agricultural supply chains in the process. These psychopaths, Putin has come to realize, can’t be reasoned with or trusted to abide by any agreements whatsoever. Russia realizes it must fight or die. That’s where we are right now.

Unfortunately, the insanity of western nations has escalated this conflict to a condition where whoever launches nukes first has the advantage. This is a very dangerous dynamic, obviously, and it stems from the fact that the west has repeatedly signaled it will not allow the existence of Russia in its “New World Order” vision of planet Earth. With friends like Victoria Nuland calling the shots, who needs enemies?

Russia has a 30+ year advantage over the west in terms of nuclear weapons and anti-air defenses
An important realization in all this is that NATO’s nuclear arsenal is ancient — mostly running on designed originally engineered in the 1970s — while Russia’s nuclear capabilities are at least two generations ahead, modernized with hyperglide reentry vehicles, evasive maneuver capabilities for ICBMs, hypersonic cruise missiles which are nuclear capable, and highly advanced anti-air defense systems that can even intercept and take down incoming ICBMs. In addition, Russia possesses secret “doomsday” weapons — far beyond their thermobaric bombs — that the world hasn’t even seen yet. On the current trajectory, those weapons are going to be introduced to the west without any warning whatsoever, resulting in the complete annihilation of Western European governments, currencies and industry.

I have no doubt whatsoever that Russia has already designated the targets of its first strike, and that those targets include London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, US naval fleets and virtually all military bases across Western Europe. We are now just one launch away from a civilization-ending event.

The USA and NATO have deluded themselves into thinking they can win a nuclear exchange with Russia, but this is just as delusional as thinking “men can get pregnant” or that money printing doesn’t cause inflation (notably, the brain dead Biden regime insists that both of these absurdities are absolutely true). Over the past two decades — and more recently led by the insanity of wokeism — the west has become fully invested in delusional thinking and fairy tale narratives that have no connection with reality. While the west has been waging a propaganda narrative war, Russia has been engineering the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons. Once the nuclear exchange begins, there’s no question whatsoever about its outcome. Russia will lose a few million people — far less than what they lost in World War II — but they will annihilate Germany, Poland, France and the United Kingdom. Western Europe will be plunged into a generation of despair and darkness, while the U.S. suffers a cascading financial collapse due to exposure to European banks, currencies and debt markets.

Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Western journalists and kleptocrats are incapable of seeing this reality, and they are similarly incapable of acting to stop it. They are caught in their own delusional world of self-inflicted brainwashing and propaganda, believing (somehow) that they can bully Russia into capitulating to the west’s insane demands. But Russia is no Third World nation. Russia can’t be economically dismantled with western sanctions, and Russia has its own domestic supply chain for literally everything it needs to feed its people, build more weapons and earn a fortune in exports of energy and commodities to willing trade partners like India, China, Turkey and Iran.

Finally, Putin will not back down, and Putin is far more intelligent than any of the cognitively-challenged lunatics running the USA, UK or NATO countries. In a chess match between Putin and Biden, you’d probably see Joe Biden augmented with remote controlled vibrating diapers to send him chess move signals through his rectum, and he still wouldn’t understand the meaning of chess notations anyway. The leaders of western nations are so utterly incompetent that they don’t even qualify as “clowns,” since good clowns are actually intelligent, capable communicators who can make people laugh. Biden, Blinken, and Nuland just make us all want to puke.

The West has already grossly miscalculated with “suicide sanctions” but still won’t admit to their catastrophic errors
As proof of the incompetence of western nations, consider the fact that their “suicide sanctions” against Russia — originally implemented to try to force Russia into a currency collapse — has had the opposite effect. The sanctions are destroying the Euro, not the Ruble, and now all of Western Europe faces a winter of darkness, famine and freezing to death. That’s on top of the “permanent deindustrialization” of European industry that is already well under way, with about 70% of metals smelting and ammonia production already offline. Fertilizer production has ground to a halt, the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been halted, and to add insult to injury, Belgium is proudly announcing the shutting down of a nuclear power plant, right as Belgium faces an energy scarcity catastrophe.

Germany, meanwhile, is putting another $8 billion into bailing out Uniper, a major natural gas provider, and that’s on top of $15 billion already spent trying to prevent Uniper’s collapse. Germany’s industrial base is being wiped out at astonishing speed, and nobody in the German government is telling the German people they won’t have jobs as industry collapses.

Putin must be astonished at the speed of which Western Europe — and Germany in particular — is destroying itself. Recall that Germany destroyed Western Europe twice already: World War I and World War II. Now, Germany (still largely run by Nazis) is leading the way to the total destruction of Europe yet again. At one level, Putin need not launch any nukes at all… he merely needs to wait for winter to kick in and for the laws of thermodynamics and economics to do the rest.

The greens must be proud: Entire forests are being clear cut for firewood
Yesterday I spoke with war correspondent Michael Yon who had just traveled through Germany (my interview with him will post tomorrow on Brighteon.com). He told me the forests were being clear-cut everywhere across Germany (at least that he could see) in a desperate effort by the people to stockpile firewood for the coming winter. This is the new “green” agenda on parade: Clear-cutting forests that will take decades to grow back. Will the greenies celebrate all the dead forests because at least Germany didn’t burn fossil fuels? Does anybody realize that a 19th century economy can’t support a 21st century population? Famine is a mathematical certainty.

To stop this crisis, all Germany has to do is apologize to Russia, drop the economic sanctions and beg Gazprom to turn the gas back on, but no, they won’t dare do that, even if hundreds of thousands of German citizens starve to death and die of exposure. In exactly the same way Adolf Hitler threw starving, freezing German soldiers into Russia’s defensive lines at Stalingrad in 1943, today’s German leaders are sacrificing the lives of their own citizens in a desperate bid to try to economically harm Russia … and it isn’t even accomplishing that! In the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet Union surrounded and defeated Germany’s Sixth Army, which surrendered more than 220,000 soldiers to the Russians. Today, Germany is willing to sacrifice millions of its own citizens if necessary, proving that Nazi-style suicide maneuvers remain alive and well in Berlin, even generations after the catastrophic outcome of World War II.

You can beat the Nazis out of Russia, but you can’t beat the Nazi tendencies out of the German political leaders.

Russia, meanwhile, is sitting on massive quantities of low-cost energy, minerals, steel manufacturing, fertilizer production, successful food crops, electronics manufacturing and everything else needed to keep civilization on its feet. Yet to this very day, there isn’t one Western European politician who will admit the truth of where things stand. Too bad propaganda can’t heat homes, or the western media would be the ultimate renewable energy source for the entire planet.

The upshot of all this? Anyone living in Western Europe should prepare for economic collapse, famine and nuclear war.

Those living in North America should prepare for economic collapse and worldwide nuclear fallout that will disrupt crops for years to come.

Those who don’t store food will end up eating radioactive food, if they can find any at all.

Prepare accordingly.

Well that's a good start to the day Mike

The biggest problem we face as a country is the duplicitous Squirrel in our midst...anyone else would already be in trouble with non-compliance with FICA, at the very least (ignore the forex regulations for now)...I'm in the financial services industry and source of funds has become a massive thing to combat money laudering and terrorist financing and for the Squirrel to not provide straight answers, he is not being treated as equal before the law...in the words of the minions, BA NA NA is what we have become...

Charge your imagined and real adversaries whilst ensuring that you yourself do not get charged so you don't have to "step aside" is one way to ensure another term...but the night of the long knives is not far...Magashule, Mabuza and Mantashe are ensuring that the branch delegates that go to the elective conference vote to kick the Squirrel into a bin where he belongs...

@ TN

I am prepared to lay that Gold Circle would not be facing the cut in revenue that they are facing to that Transformation Fund whatever.................if Jacob Zuma was still President.[ In his term of office].